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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Tomb of Caecilia Metella called Capo di Bove [Ox Head], plate twenty from Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments

1748
Etching on ivory laid paper
13.5 × 26.7 cm (5.3 × 10.5 in)

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